A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy without a solid projectile, including lasers, microwaves, particle beams, and sound beams.

2023年5月25日 · Directed energy weapons (DEW) use concentrated electromagnetic energy to combat enemy forces and assets. These weapons include high energy lasers and other high power electromagnetics—such as millimeter wave and high power microwave weapons. Unlike weapons that fire bullets or missiles, DEWs can respond to a threat in different ways.

The Microwave beam disrupts the drone’s guidance system and can attack the entire swarm, downing multiple drones at a time. In the same test, Raytheon’s high-energy laser system proved lethal against drones but zapped them simultaneously.

Programs to develop Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) have gained momentum, driven by the emergence of easily deployable laser sources and the increasing presence of drones on the battlefield.

Directed energy weapons (DEW) use concentrated electromagnetic energy to combat enemy forces and assets. These weapons include high energy lasers and other high power electromagnetics—such as millimeter wave and high power microwave weapons. Unlike weapons that fire bullets or missiles, DEWs can respond to a threat in different ways.

2023年4月17日 · The Department of Defense (DOD) is currently developing directed energy weapons with the goal of defeating a range of threats, including drones and missiles. However, GAO found that, even as DOD makes progress developing these capabilities, its efforts to transition prototypes to acquisition programs face challenges.

2023年5月19日 · The Tactical High-power Operational Responder (THOR), a high-powered microwave counter drone weapon, stands ready to demonstrate its effectiveness against a …

2024年2月20日 · Directed energy weapons (DEW) are part of a layered approach to integrated air and missile defence. But with wide-ranging and disruptive implications for defence budgets and for industry that have only just begun to be considered, could the military impact of this possible DEW revolution be just the tip of the iceberg?

2021年7月23日 · Most eyebrow raising is AFRL’s prediction that DEW could be used by 2060 to create “force fields” to protect bases by repelling incoming drones and munitions — or even eventually improved ...

Whilst counter-drone measures encompass a variety of technologies and approaches, there is a growing consensus that DEWs could be a viable solution to many unmanned threats. A host of nations are actively pursuing the development of electronic and directed energy solutions to counter unmanned threats.